ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2015
Alcohol consumption and venous thromboembolism: friend or foe?
Review in Internal and emergency medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine · 2020Trial
- Benefits and Risks of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Cardiovascular Disease: Current Findings and Controversies.Nutrients · 2019Trial
- Long-term risk of venous thromboembolism following hip or knee replacement surgery: a population-based matched cohort study.Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis · 2025Article
- Evidence for causal effects of neuropsychiatric conditions on risk of venous thromboembolism: A univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization study.Journal of vascular surgery. Venous and lymphatic disorders · 2024Review
- Sleep patterns, genetic susceptibility, and venous thromboembolism: A prospective study of 384,758 UK Biobank participants.PloS one · 2024Article
- Tobacco smoking and binge alcohol use are associated with incident venous thromboembolism in an HIV cohort.HIV medicine · 2022Article
- Vitamin Supplements as a Nutritional Strategy against Chronic Alcohol Consumption? An Updated Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A risk prediction model for evaluating thrombosis extension of muscle calf venous thrombosis after craniotomy.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Alcohol, cardiovascular disease and industry funding: A co-authorship network analysis of systematic reviews.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- In-hospital left ventricular thrombus following ST-elevation myocardial infarction.International journal of cardiology · 2020Article
- Cardiovascular Risk Factors Associated With Venous Thromboembolism.JAMA cardiology · 2019Article
- Effect of alcohol intoxication on the risk of venous thromboembolism: A nationwide retrospective cohort study.Medicine · 2017Article
- A Case of Miller Fisher Syndrome, Thromboembolic Disease, and Angioedema: Association or Coincidence?The American journal of case reports · 2017Article
- Natural Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Hangover and Alcohol Use Disorder.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Review
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Abstract
A light to moderate consumption of certain types of alcoholic beverages may exert a favorable effect on cardiovascular risk, but no conclusive information is available on the putative relationship between alcohol intake and the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). We performed an electronic search on Medline and Scopus, using the keywords "venous thromboembolism", "venous thrombosis" and "alcohol", to identify clinical studies linking alcohol intake and VTE risk. The literature search generated 16 studies, 4 of which are case-control, 1 cross-sectional and 11 prospective. Significant reduction of VTE associated with alcohol intake is observed in only 4/16 studies, and in all these the association is only meaningful for a moderate amount of alcohol (i.e., 2-4 glasses). Unlike these trials, two other studies observe that alcohol intake is associated with an increased risk of VTE, whereas the association is insignificant in the remainder. Binge drinking increases the VTE risk in one study but not in another. The consumption of beer is associated with a decreased VTE risk in one study but not in two others. We hence conclude that the relationship between intake of alcoholic beverages and increased or decreased risk of VTE is largely elusive.
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